@wdlindsy I find the article insightful.

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@wdlindsy I find the article insightful. I might go read the book. But I notice that the author in the Guardian does a weird grammatical thing and it perplexes me. When talking about the feud between Greta Thunberg and Andrew Tate on Twitter, they write:

“Please provide your email address so I can send a complete list of my car collection and their respective enormous emissions,” Tate tweeted at Greta, along with a photo of him pumping gas into one of them.

The Tate tweeted at Greta instead of Tate tweeted at Thunberg strikes me as odd. Why do we use the man's last name and the woman's first? Wouldn't this sentence sound weird if it was written Andrew tweeted at Thunberg?

Given that Andrew and his brother Tristan are similarly toxic, it actually makes sense to say "Andrew" to be clear which vile Tate we are talking about. There's no similar possible confusion on Thunbergs.

Isn't this strange? Twice they refer to Thunberg as 'Greta' while never referring to Tate simply as 'Andrew'. It seems to be more familiar with the woman and more formal with the man. I can't come up with any neutral explanation for this. It makes no sense to name them differently inside the same sentence.

An author wrote it and any number of copyeditors let this go by. I don't understand.

#patriarchy #women